Review published in the revue "The Australian" on "Short Stories" written for the Australian Chamber Orchestra: Brett Dean's "Short Stories" are "evocative, tightly structured miniatures, for the most part, brooding and unsettling, dominated by a threatening, nervous energy that occasionally swells up into frenzied outbursts. Only the elegiac [...] Arietta offers any sense of relief, albeit fleeting and unresolved. Once again, Dean proves that he is a composer with a distinctive voice and singular vision." (Murray Black, The Australian, 04.07.2005)